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WILLIAM STREET ARTISTS

SHAN TURNER-CARROLL is an Australian artist of Burmese descent whose practice explores site-specificity and integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film.

He embodies the role of the trickster, magician or pilgrim, using common gestures and everyday objects and acts in alchemical ways, creating the process of artmaking as ritualistic and transformative. Play, humour and experimentation are key elements within his current practice.

www.shanturnercarroll.com

ANTHEA WILLIAMS is an award-winning theatre director and emerging film director specialising in developing new Australian performance. Her work focusses on marginalised experiences by creating space for new and diverse voices working with radical narratives and processes in order to privilege the relegated and forgotten. She is interested in how silent histories can and do impact upon the present. Williams is also an advocate for disability rights.

antheawilliamsdirector.com

KIERAN BRYANT is an emerging artist who loves water and its metaphorical possibilities. He uses performance, collaborative actions, installation, photography, sculpture, video, and text to identify interior liquid landscapes and emotional wateriness within queer bodies. His work is autobiographical; employing a pastiche of popular culture modes and sources to craft a singular narrative.

kieranbryant.com/

JONNY HAWKINS is an emerging, multidisciplinary artist whose practice champions togetherness, Queer celebration and the historical and contemporary local stories of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. He writes for the stage, screen and personal essays; is an actor and performance maker; and event producer. Hawkins work focuses on unlikely intersections of how people come together, and why they keep choosing to stay together. He works towards community building and a culture of artists from different disciplines helping each other with collaborations and bigger ideas.

EMILY PARSONS-LORD is an experimental contemporary artist that makes ephemeral installations and performances that are informed by research and critical dialogue with climate sciences, natural history, and politics through the material consideration of air. Air is simultaneously local and global, encompassing the effects of breathing as well as the governance of polluters and policy makers. Air is where what we jettison into seeming oblivion is returned. It is a physical site, as well as a place we can project our imaginations.

www.emilyparsons-lord.com

VIDYA MAKAN is a composer, lyricist, actor and singer, among other things. She recently wrote, directed and produced the original song ‘I Need You To See Me’; a call to action to the entertainment industry for diverse representation and inclusion featuring 101 BIPoC and CALD performers aged 18-25.

www.vidyamakan.com

WATERLOO LIBRARY ARTISTS

Intergenerational multidisciplinary artists – Nadeena Dixon, Wasana Dixon, and Naryma Dixon.

Nadeena Dixon is a Wiradjuri, Yuin & Gadigal (Dharug - Boorongberrigal clan) multidisciplinary artist. Her practice encompasses printmaking, multi-platform production including photography, animation, video, editing, sound, webpage design, and integration. She is recognised as a Master Weaver in Indigenous Cultural Traditions and her cultural practices include dance, song, language, song-writing, contemporary theatre storytelling, and contemporary ceremony. She is also an experienced guitarist, singer, and performance artist.

Wasana and Naryma Dixon are both Graduates from COFA School of Art and Design, they are multidisciplinary artists working in illustration, web page design, photography, short film, and animation.

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ANASTASIA PARMSON

Untitled (A Creative Retreat) invites visitors to discover a hidden gem beneath a grand staircase. In this intimate nook, Anastasia Parmson’s signature monochromatic palette draws the eye.

Free entry.
2023 TWT Creative Precinct Block Party

Now in its 7th year, the Block Party invites you to follow a trail through the TWT Creative Precinct and discover the creative ideas that are transforming the Lower North Shore, and experience a free program of exhibitions, performance, music and workshops for all the community.
Want to run a Brand X venue?

Brand X is seeking a Venue Technician to facilitate access, equipment and technical support of hirers and programmed artists accessing the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre in Darlinghurst.
Generating income for creatives: donors and sponsors. Presented by Sharpe Advisory

Be part of a 90-minute roundtable discussion for creatives and creative organisations on how to get started with donations and sponsorship.

Tickets available for $30
Artist Pass holders get in free

ProtoSHOP Residencies

Residencies for artists to prototype a new idea and test market appeal on our online shop platform.
Flying Nun Artists

Every six-months, Performing Artists develop new work as part of our performing arts residency program.
Studio Tenancies

Brand X manages four properties across Sydney offering artists subsidised semi-permanent tenancies.
Creative Business

Fine-grain creative businesses and local arts organisations operate from our four properties across Sydney.

City of Sydney Creative Studios is home to creativity.

The City of Sydney Creative Studios is a new state-of-the-art cultural facility consisting of 30 spaces across 5 storeys in the Sydney CBD. Book a creative space now!
ESCAC Rehearsal Space - Darlinghurst

Rehearsal space for hire in Darlinghurst, Sydney for Performing Artists, Dance, Theatre practitioners preparing for production, training or building their creative practice as well as being a venue suitable for performances, events, classes and workshops.
Our Spaces

Brand X offer a number of spaces for hire across Sydney to service independent performing, visual and music practitioners. Our spaces are affordable and offer a mix of shared open-plan studios or private rehearsal rooms with resources to support training, development or the creation of new work.
TWT Visual Arts Studio – St Leonards

Brand X offers affordable, semi-permanent tenancy to visual artists, designers and craft practitioners in open-plan shared spaces and private enclosed studios.
What is Brand X?

Brand X is a not-for-profit arts organisation run by Artists for Artists who are in the business of making space for Artists by re-purposing under-utilised properties in Sydney so performing, recording and visual art communities can practice their craft.
FLYING NUN PERFORMING ARTS RESIDENCY

The Flying Nun is a contemporary performing arts program at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre in Darlinghurst that supports artists making new work and taking risks. Applications open now!
Staff of Brand X

Read the profiles of our staff at Brand X.
L2.2: Rehearsal Space at CoSCS

Smaller of two rehearsal spaces at the City of Sydney Creative Studios, the space is designed for performing artists training or building their creative practice as well as being a venue suitable for auditions, classes and workshops.
L2.1: Rehearsal Space at CoSCS

Largest of two rehearsal spaces at the City of Sydney Creative Studios, the space accommodates performance based companies and collectives preparing for production. With a minimum 10 hour booking per day, this space provides exclusive access to allow for rehearsal mark-up and the use of sets/props for the duration of the weekly hire period.
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